See attempt by Reagan Assassin John Hinckley Jr. now at 67
He has just been released after serving 40 years for having turned the former president.
It's been 41 years forJohn Hinckley Jr. try tomurderRonald Reagan Not long after his first mandate as president. Now Hinckley is a free man. Wednesday, June 15, the 67 -year -oldCertainly unconditional release After spending most of the last 40 years in psychiatric care. In recent years, he has taken up certain freedoms but was still under various prohibitions.
In 1981, Hinckley tried to kill Reagan in the hope of attracting the actor's attentionJodie Foster, with whom he had an obsession. During the assassination attempt, Hinckley injured Reagan, press secretary of the White HouseJames Brady, police officerThomas Delahantyand secret service agentTimothy McCarthy. Brady was partially paralyzed and died of his injuries in 2014.
Now that Hinckley is free, he tries to become known for something very different: his music. Read on to find out more.
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Hinckley has spent years in a psychiatric hospital.
Hinckley was recognized "not guilty due to madness" after his attempted assassination on Reagan. Shortly after this verdict rendered, the process by which a defendantcould claim that madness has undergone changes. Due to the verdict he received, Hinckley was not imprisoned but had to live in a psychiatric room at St. Elizabeth hospital in Washington, D.C.
Over the years, Hinckley has obtained certain freedoms, such as being authorized to visit his parents. In 2016, a federal judge granted himFreedom to leave the hospital And go to live with his mother, as NPR reported, because the hospital said that he was no longer a danger and his psychosis and his depression were in remission. Hinckley was still to respect certain restrictions, in particular by not traveling in areas where a president or members of the congress was present or by contacting Foster, one of his victims or their families.
He was simply completely released.
On June 15, Hinckley came out unconditionally. NPR said the Department of Behavioral Health has declared to the court that Hinckley was "a low risk of future violence". When Hinckley was completely released,He tweeted, "After 41 years 2 months and 15 days, freedom finally !!!"
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He is a musician and an artist.
Hinckley is a musician and visual artist, and in 2020,He obtained permission To present his work under his own name, as reported by the AP.His YouTube channel, where he downloads videos of himself singing and playing the guitar, currently has 28,000 followers. In January, he tweeted thatHe was starting a group And in search of a bass player, drummer and main guitarist. In December 2021, he shared on YouTube thatHe was starting a record company To take out your own music and hope to take out the music from other people too.
Hinckley also publishedPhotos of his art On social networks, as well as links to buy parts on eBay.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
His next concerts have been canceled.
Hinckley has reserved three upcoming concertsended up being canceled, as indicated byThe New York Times. The Brooklyn, N.Y. Line Market Hotel published a declaration on cancellation explaining that even if Hinckley himself is not considered a threat, "this is not worth the game on the security of our vulnerable communities to give a Guy a microphone and a pay check for his art which did not have to win it, which we do not care at the artistic level, and which upsets people in a dangerously radicalized reactionary climate. "Nyt The reports that emissions planned in Chicago and Connecticut have also been canceled.
Hinckley saidThe New York Times, "I look at the news like everyone - we live in very, very frightening moments, to be honest. I would not have managed to go with the series that if I felt safe in the show and that the public was going to be safe. "
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